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The Sports: SURFING JUST LIKE THEY DO IN THE U.S.A.

Rocketing up the Stouffer’s Cincinnati Towers by express elevator, I’m attempting to frame an equally hasty explanation for Steve Cummings of the Sports, as to just where it was that I heard Tom Robinson and Eric Burdon in his vocals when I Rock-a-Ramaed his group’s U.S. debut album, Don’t Throw Stones, a couple of months before.

April 1, 1980
Richard Riegel

The Sports SURFING JUST LIKE THEY DO IN THE U.S.A.

Sporting Life Breaks Oat Of the Antipodes

by

Richard Rlegel

Rocketing up the Stouffer’s Cincinnati Towers by express elevator, I’m attempting to frame an equally hasty explanation for Steve Cummings of the Sports, as to just where it was that I heard Tom Robinson and Eric Burdon in his vocals when I Rock-a-Ramaed his group’s U.S. debut album, Don’t Throw Stones, a couple of months before. I had dashed off that Rama in a few minutes of some deadline midnight dreary, and when I had more time to live with the album later, I found it just as exhilarating (and still just as Graham Parkerish) as I had already promised in print, but the redoubtable Messrs. Robinson and Burdon seemed hardly audible within its grooves.

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